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N.PETERS, PHOTc-UTHOGHAPHER, WASHINGTON, n c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DOMINICUS R. LEIGHTON AND JAMES T. LEIGHTON, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5 1,199, dated November 2S, 1865.

To all whom it may concern s Be it known that we, DoMINIeUs R. LEIGH- TON and JAMES T. LEIGH'roN, of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex, and State ot' Massach usetts, have iuven ted anew and Improved Washing-Machine; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the. accompanying drawings, making a part of this specihcation, of whieh Figure l is a top view of the machine, and Fig. 2 is a section (longitudinal) of the same.

The letter Arepresents the water and clothes reservoir ortub, B,thescrubbingbar; U, the brush, a, its hinge; D, its slide-bar; E E, its sliding ways or guides; F, the driving-shaftg G, the upper crank; b, its connecting-rod c, the lower crank; d, the upper small pulley; d/,the belt, @,thc large pulley, f, its connecting-rod; h, the treadle; H, the i'rame ot the machine.

To enable others to make and use our invention, we will proceed to explain the same. llhe accompanying drawings readily suggest the nature, use, and mode of operation thereof. NVe makeitchiey ofwood or any suitable material.

A is a reservoir, of any convenient size, to hold the water and the clothes to bc washed. It has a bar, B, ruiming through the middle and resting upon supports, as seen in each ofthe iigures. On this bar the clothes are scrubbed by a brush, U, which is made to rub back and forth upon the clothes to be washed. To cause this rubbing motion, we have a treadle, h, which is nearly like that of a sewing-machine in its motion, and is clearly represented in F1 g. 2. It is made ot' wood. an iron or other suitable rod, f, to the large -which is the brush or rubber.

This treadle is connected by pulley e, which is also connected by a belt, d, with the smaller pulley, through which passes the driving-shaft F; and this drivng-shaft is also connected by the crank G and the rod b with the slide-bar D, upon the extremity of lt will also be perceived that this slide-bar D rests on two rollers for supports, and has also two strips above it to keep itin place, though it might run in grooves let into its sliding waysE E perhaps equally as well.

To put the machine in motion, stand or sit in front of it and put the foot on the treadle and giveit motion, and by properly loading the larger pulley, will make this motion very easy. Hold the articles to be washed upon the scrubhing-bar under the brush, the same being covered with suds or water. Fasten the brush on a hinge, a, andthe brush itself may be fastened ou by a screw passingthrough the capof the brush, so that it may be easily taken off-and brushes of different softness used aceordin g to the article to be washed 5 or use corrugated rubber or any substance in the place of the brush which will answer the intended purpose. The reservoir may have a plug at any convenient place for drawing oft' the water.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A washing-machine the several parts of which are combined, arranged, and operated substantially in the manner and for the pur pose above set forth.

DOMINIGUS R. LEIGHTON. JAMES T. LEIGHTON. Witnesses".

J. L. NEWTON, E. T. TRo'r'r. 

